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Playing the Long Game: A Memoir

Written by:
Christine Sinclair
Narrated by:
Rachel Cairns

Unabridged Audiobook

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Book
2
Narrator
2
Release Date
November 1, 2022
Duration
6 hours 15 minutes
Summary
NATIONAL BESTSELLER

For the first time in depth and in public, Olympic soccer gold-medalist Christine Sinclair, the top international goal scorer of all time and one of Canada's greatest athletes, reflects on both her exhilarating successes and her heartbreaking failures. Playing the Long Game is a book of earned wisdom on the value of determination and team spirit, and on leadership that changed the landscape of women's sport.

Christine Sinclair is one of the world's most respected and admired athletes. Not only is she the player who has scored the most goals on the international soccer stage, male or female, but more than two decades into her career, she is the heart of any team she plays on, the captain of both Canada's national team and the top-ranked Portland Thorns FC in the National Women's Soccer League. 
    Working with the brilliant and bestselling sportswriter Stephen Brunt, who has followed her career for decades, the intensely private Sinclair will share her reflections on the significant moments and turning points in her life and career, the big wins and losses survived, not only on the pitch. Her extraordinary journey, combined with her candour, commitment and decency, will inspire and empower her fans and admirers, and girls and women everywhere.
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While there is no doubt she’s has been successful at the highest level of women’s soccer, this book is boring. It’s more of a game summary of her women’s world cup women’s Olympic games. Although she complains a lot about how men are paid more, she doesn’t talk about the fact that sport is a business or how men’s sport is often subsidizing women’s sport. She complains about females not being hired to coach, yet talk’s disparagingly about her Italian female coach, and says her best coaches were the male coaches. Not even her female Olympic coach when they won gold. She complains that there is no professional soccer league in Canada but doesn’t say anything about what she is doing about.

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